I think it’s disingenuous to puposefully misinterpret language to make Malcriada seem dumb. Obviously she meant excite as in inspire, but you go ahead and keep being a condescending jerk to people who are a part of that voting block you so want to support Clinton, cause alientating us and preemptively blaming us if…

I really, really dislike how you all are jumping on me and Malcriada for pointing out how Hillary has been far from ideal when it comes to Latinx issues. I voted for Obama, twice, but I still also petitioned and protested for immigration reform. I voted for people who support Latinx interests. Obama’s immigration…

Oh please. I never said I wouldn’t vote for her, but she needs to earn our votes. It’s ridiculous that the people she’s harmed should be blamed if she doesn’t win. I would say the blame would fall on her. Enough with the fear mongering. Most Latinxs would never vote Trump, but that doesn’t mean we should be happy…

I would never vote for Trump, but there are a lot of us Latinx people who still haven’t forgotten her words against tge children and women in detention centers from Central America or her involvement in various cous in the region (Honduras comes to mind). She doesn’t have the vote locked. She needs to give Latinx…

This. My abusuve-alcholic father was actually a great person when sober. He was kind, generous, smart, and way more supportive of my personal decisions than my mother. However, drunk, he was emotionally and verbally abusive. He threatened to kill me and my mother more than once. Him smashing a goldfish bowl and our…

Yep. First day or two it’s tender redness with lightish blue. Lthe blue/black usually comes after the swelling goes down. My dad threw a chair at my mother’s face when I was about 9. It didn’t look too bad until the next day and that was mostly swelling. By tge third day, it was a huge deep purple black bruise on her…

Even though I love(d) Depp since I was a wee girl, this is inexcuseable. As soon as I saw the pictures of her bruises and the photo of he with friends I instantly believed. She’s definitely covering up her bruise in that photo. My father was an abusive drunk. Her description sounds just like his MO. I can’t support…

I didn’t even want to read the third book after how the column ended (spoiler: the baby was Daniel’s and she moves in with him to raise the baby together though it’s implied ut won’t last). Once I read the Darcy spoiler I was over it. Edge of Reason was a decent follow up, but the movie wasn’t as good as the book.…

It seens loosely based on the column Fields published in The Independent between the second and third books. I hated it and still won’t read the 3rd book. Bridget went from flawed but charming to annoying. I’m worried they’re making this to gear up for a movie based on Mad About the Boy.

Except not. She’s going to a family tgat currently has custody of one of her sisters and lives down the street from her other sister. The family has had montly visits and regular skype calls with her. She has visited them and considers them family. All this is being done under her father’s request because he has…

I agree, as someone who has bipolar I with psychosis. I think there are a lot of well-meaning people commenting that he didn’t know what he was doing was wrong because he saw the victim as a threat. But in deep psychosis I’m not sure anyone can be clear headed enough to react the way he did. From the description of…

The article quotes a stat that 5-10% have severe mental illness, so around 90% do not. Being a violent criminal isn’t a mental illness and isn’t part of any diagnostic criteria for mental illness. People murder for all sorts of reasons, many having a lot more to do with jealously, money, or drugs than mental illness.

Thank you. So many people don’t realize that you can not have both according to the DSM. As soon as I saw that it drove me up a wall. I have bipolar type I with psychosis...my opinion on this? I don’t agree with capital punishment in it’s current state, but I also think this man was 100% able to tell the consequences…

I just had that same thought. And as a teacher with ADHD it makes sense now cause I despise my classroom lights.

My time was 2006-10...so rise of the tea party, anti-Obama types. It was weird. They dressed in business casual and were all white. They would not let you pass without a flier unless your hands were full and you had headphones on. I figured it was about academic reputation, but conservative types I know still call it…

That happened to you too? Loved Berkeley though. I never coukd understand the ykung Republican group constantly handinf out fliers on Sproul...why even go to Berkeley as a Republican?

Yep and it’s causing what might soon amount to the genocide of black Dominicas as the current regime want them to “go back home” to Haiti...

Shout out to a fellow Pipil. My dad’s family is from thr Pipil line, unsure on my mom’s side. Are you from El Salvador?

I used to be on lithium and needed to pee about every 45 minutes to an hour during the day and up to 4 times a night. My husband was driving us to the mall once and the traffic made the trip longer than expected. Even speeding and then letting me off before parking didn’t save me. I made it into the stall but sadly my…

Thank you for the apology, but the bit at the end explaining to me what a manic episode would do is condescending and unnecessary. Trust that I’ve had enough to know. Lowered inhibitions don’t just come from mania. He could as easily have been drinking or egged on by his pals. I get that you want to have this…